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THE FORT MILL TIMES. Democratic? Published Thursdays. B. W. nRAnrOUn - - Editor and ProDrietrr ^OBscBimoN RATrs: On? Year II 2r Six Month* KB j The Time* Invites contribution* on livcsubjcct* but doos not agree to publish more than 200 wordr I in any subject. The right is reserved to edil vary communication submitted for publication. On application to the publisher, advertising r ate* are mnde known to those Interested. Tolenhone. local and long distance. No. 112. Entered nt the postofflcc nt Fort Mill. S. C.. n? mall matter of the second class. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. 1915. ! Life With an Inspiration. Stick to your dream, boy. Let nothing swerve you from the path that leads upward toward the fulfillment of your life's ambition. You will meet with difficulties and discouragements, but when you do, just think of the man' HerreshofT, the boat builder, who died the other day up in Rhode Island. In his life you ought to find inspiration enough to lift you over any obstacle. A writer in one of our exchanges says that when John B. r. lw.w klo net i conuii >"v ao a uuj 1110 ciiiiui~ tion was to design and build the fastest boats in the world. Hebecame blind when yet a boy. That would have discouraged any ordinary boy, for how could a blind man design a model that he could not see? But HerresholT was no ordinary boy. He stuck to his dream. The heavy handicap of blindness only made him press on all the harder. The blind boy sat in eternal darkness and whittled out hio boat models. * Gradually there developed in his fingers a muscle sense that was worth more to him than eyesight wou'.d have been. Slipping the model of a boat through his hands he could tell how it should be shaped to; slip through the water with the least resistance. Other designers figured out their models by complex mathematical calculations. But the blind boy l'elt with his sensitive lingers, and his models were the best, for when he was twenty-four years old he built the fastest yacht the world has ever known and, while he could not see the boai go, he felt the dash and plunge and swiftness of it, and he wejft when they told him his boat had won the race. The fame of the blind designer of fast boats spread round the world and England, Russia and Italy gave him contracts for their fastest torpedo boats. Me died a few days ago, a wealthy man and, better than that, a successful man, for he had stuck to his boyhood's dream and achieved it fully. If Prohibition Loses Have you thought of this? Suppose prohibition in your county should lose by one vote vour vote. Heretofore prohibition has not been a national issue. Unless all signs fail it will be a icading issue in the next presidential campaign. You say, Mr. Confident Citi-il zen, that the liquor traffic is no curse to you and that your family is not suffering' fron? its evil effects. Perhaps so, but what about that little boy, your hope of the future? Now is the time to put liquor out of his reach. Have you noticed the great increase in whiskey advertisements in the last few months? Let us hope that this is a sign that the liquor business is falling Yes, you are your brother's keeper, especially if he is the weak brother. How we wish for "Votes for : Women" until after September 14.?Southern Christian Advocate. Citizens of Fort Mill are to be congratulated upon rejecting * the recent proposition to put a chautauqua here, if we are to judge by the experiences of the : citizens of nearby towns with these traveling shews. Accordto the newspapers, Mt. Holly, N. C., men were called upon a few days ago for something like $13 each to make up the shortage in receipts of the chautauqua in that town, while over at Gastonia a few days later the j guarantors were compelled to hand over<jto the chautauqua people $22.r>o each to make up the j losses. VYre don't imagine that Fort Mill will have a chautauqua snnn nnlocc tlio cVi/iu- iliw i/l/u come on its own hook. There is a habit and a delusion among; a number of our town people to go to some nearby city or town to shop, believing that they can buy cheaper. Coming to think of it. these good people I may be buncoed by their own thoughts. Please, reckon your carfare and time, if tin* latter is worth anything. If our town merchants try to soak you or have not what you want of, course you are justified to go elsewhere. Hut first find out' by getting prices and see wi at your home merchants have. This newspaper's advertisers are your friends and they want i you to know it. They are trying | to helj) you in buying the best material at the very lowest price. That is the way they advertise and they are all honest and truthful men. By patronizing them you cannot lose, but instead our paper and our community will be helped. While ten men watch fori chances, one man makes a | chance. While ten men wait for something to turn up, one turns something up; so while ten fail one succeeds and is called a man of luck, the favorite of fortune. Luck and fortune is the result of honest endeavor, work and toil and if you would succeed, go to work. The workingman who hands his wages to his wife every Saturday and receives ten cents and a kiss in return, has more real enjoyment than the man who spends his whole pay on Saturday night and hands his abused and half-starved wife mi ninntu ? ^ I pay envelope. Woman's character has been likened to a postage stamp one black mark ruins it. Man's character, like a treasury note, no matter how many stains, it still passes at par. This double standard established by society is not just, but is recognized the civilized world over. Blease for Local Option. Former Governor Cole L. lilease is out in an interview favoring local option and aurninat State-wide prohibition, says a Columbia despatch. Mr. Blease contends that if State-wide prohibition is voted the liquor question will become the leading issue of State campaigns for years to come. He also asserts he knows personally "of some of the most open socalled blind tigers in the State who are going to work side by side with preachers for prohibition," and states further: "I have had several negroes to tell me that they are going to vote for prohibition because they believed by it they could finally get back to the bar room system." To Open Farm Like School. The opening of the F'ineville Farm Life School one month hence is made possible by the action of the County Board of * . -j* . - .r Education in making an appropriation of $1,000 for this purpose, this sum to he supplemented by $1,000 from the. State Department of Education, says the Charlotte Observer.' Dr. J. Y. Joyner, State superintendent, met with th" board Monday and advised tha. this be done. He practicahy endowed the equipment witn the exception of the fact that one dormitory has not yet been supplied. The contract for this, however, is about to he let. A lar^e delegation of people from; t hn Pinm'illn r*rvir*b J ? i... > < i iik. i nig li i" ?l IICMit! ilPpeared before the hoard and urged the appropriating of $1,500. The compromise motion to appropriate $1,000 carried by a majority of one. The Pinoville High School is already open. An expert from A. and M. College will be consulted as to the farm life department. Miss Minnie Garrison is spending a few days in Pineville, the guest of Mrs. A. L. Stough. Mrs. J. I>. Lamb and children and Mrs. McNeely, of Moores-; vide, N. ('.. are visitors in the home of E. VV. Kimbreli in this eit>. j FOR SALE, WANTED, LOST, FOUND. i FOR SALE Two-foot Oak and Hickory Wood at $S.0U per cord. Stove Wood, ready for stove, 12 to IS j inches long, $2..r>0 per load of 1-2 cord. I. O. ('. Rigs, 7 to K weeks old, delivered. Osmond Barber, Waierouk Farm. FOR SALE Red Rust-Proof Seed Oats. Apply to F. M. Mack. FOR SALE Whole Wheat Flour cures constipation, aids digestionput up in (5-U), 12-ib and 25-lb bags, i Five me your orders. Osmond Barber, Wat croak farm. FOlt KAl.t*' (itiL- I i??>iw.? i for bridges, sizes 2x6, 2xS, 2x10, at $1.00 per hundred at my farm. Osmond Barber, Wateronk Farm. FOR UK FT Two Brick Stor? s and one Warehouse on Main street, Fortj Mill, lately occupi ! by Mills & Young! Co. Occupancy S<;.t. 1, 101f?. Apply to W. S. Stev : rt. Box !'(?, HOT North College St., Charlotte, N. C. 5555155 555? We Have a Goo< 2&ettf)'g 3&n Drop in and let us j and we'll send out what y< paper, 25c, 50c and 75c. Paper by the Envelopes to 1 Parks Drug Huyler's Chocolate 1OO ?|? * i First Nati< * ; [Under Supervision I 4 ?|? In I Let Us Fill Your JOB PR1 The Times, r :T,.;yrr ? ??? i |\f /tv's? a t e I w I j - ai I New York's 1 m Our Suits and Ski | erately priced. | Miss Warlick !ble at once for stre few we eks and we | for the least mone 3 Wc have the I Sh oes are gLl?tT? | have enough to (it l^ort Mill. Come jj KIMBRE K.S&S NEW LIFE PiLLS The Pills Thr?.t Do Cure. i & " S i ci Assortment ot U tften Xinen | show you, or phone us ou want. Prices of box 2 pound, 25c. match, 10c. ; Company I ;s and Bon Bons. Safety ? I ;>nal Bank i I). S. Government.] ; terest t " ' * Next Order For NTING. Fort Mill. 4 . # ? 11 g^i. an Coat ad Skirts atest models are coming: its are exceptionally plea - HATS - has arrived and is showi *et wear. Our opening i will show the season s y SHOES quality and quantity to s miced to give satisfa up every man, woman in and see us. jlusT "Where Qv i i i i " i !! 11 mum in iiib? iBiim | New Fall I SHOES MILLINE Prices are lower than they ha1 We sold nearly half our Ladi were opened. When you set | $3.00 Hat selling for $1.50, or S for $2.50, it is hard to pass it b; S We have a habit of cutting tl 9 Come let us show you. | L. J. Mc Statistics , That 95 per cent, o who live to be 60 ye either inmates of rh stitutions, supporte< tives. or dependent < for a living. ? Open a Savings Ac\ be Indcpcndc 4 per cent interest < J I Savings Bank of . ' i J. Harry Foster, ATTORNEY AT LAW. df' tho Rock Hill, - - - S. C. COMp - any 1c, ??????????????? tate. Old newspapers for sale at The and w< rimes office. 90H-9 ? ^ . ( iw 1111 C *2L ^ buits I 1 1 ~ in each week. | ? sing and moding Hats suita- | ^ will be in a favorite styles how you. Our ction and we and child in lality Reigns" j| anvfti sasaasaBaBae J Goods. _j DRY GOODS RY ve been in many years. es' Hats first day they j 5 a pretty up-to-date I a tRnn ?11:? I a iai dClllIl^ ?e price in half. issey. ? i Show f the men ars old are aritable inJ by rela on salaries ccunt and ^ ; nt. ' )n Savings Fort Mill < , t. " -- -J I "MONEY" * i int makes it and under the terms CONTINENTAL MORTGAGE ANY you can secure it at 6'/ for fral purpose on approved real epTerms easy, tell us your wants 3 will cooperate with you. Momey BM*. Baltimore M. O. .